I'd only ever heard of Santa Cruz in passing. Just on the peripheries of conversations. I'd googled where was the best place to surf on the West Coast of America and it had popped up here and there. I didn't pay it much attention but...
Things I've learnt from my friends husband walking out on her and her three small children ~ Listen. At the beginning your number one job in this situation is to listen. Do not offer advice. You're not a counsellor or a therapist, you weren't in...
~ LAURA LEE JEWELLERY BLOG ~ At LLJ we believe that jewellery is for everyone. And with that in mind, we’re launching a brand new, concise menswear collection for our loyal male customers. Having always loved a well-dressed and stylish man, Laura had been thinking about creating a...
I've been thinking a lot about strippers recently. Hear me out! I've started pole dancing. My current writing project involves a piece about a stripper. It's a monologue that includes pole dancing and is hopefully going to be performed one day. Not by myself, I might add, as...
At the time of writing this I am two weeks away from turning The Big Four Oh. At the time of you reading this however I am a mere five days away from turning forty. Five days away from a life changing birthday. Well, it doesn't have...
{Jawline examples from 2009} The first time I ever heard about plastic surgery was in the early 90's when I found a picture of Dolly Parton in one of my Saturday magazines. I was so fascinated by the picture that I cut it out and...
I grew up with nothing. Literally nothing. Totally untrue of course but that's what my 'deprived' teenage brain told me. It told me that I was at a disadvantage in the, seemingly, third world country I was living in as I didn't have access to the...
Last week I had the privilege of going to the theatre twice. On Monday night I went with a friend to The Old Vic to see Fanny and Alexander and on Wednesday night I went with my work friends to the Noel Coward theatre in...
My niece looks like my brother. Sounds cute but she's actually my sisters daughter. I'm not saying she's currently resembling a nearly 42 year old man but, Tiny, as we like to call her, has the same heavy brow and cheeky smile that our brother...